Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed has said the Muhammadu Buhari administration is not overwhelmed by the security challenges in the country.
The minister was apparently replying to a comment credited to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who said, on Sunday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, that the Buhari administration was overwhelmed by the security challenges ravaging the country.
Mohammed spoke on a TVC programme, “This Morning,” monitored yesterday in Abuja by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The minister, who condoled with the families of the victims of a recent train attack, cited various Federal Government’s efforts in tackling the security challenges in the country.
According to him, the government is fast-tracking the installation of some security gadgets on railway tracks to ensure adequate surveillance.
“The Federal Government is working towards ensuring that such incident does not reoccur.
“One of the things that the government wants to do is to fast-track the installation of a surveillance and monitoring system, not just on the Abuja-Kaduna rail track but also on the Lagos-Ibadan and Warri-Itakpe rail tracks, to ensure that at any given time we will be able to monitor from the control room,” he said.
Mohammed noted that despite the security challenges, the military and other security personnel were doing their best and have recorded successes in the fight against terrorism.
“We must give kudos to our military. You know that we are not fighting a conventional war but terrorism, hence the need for everyone to support the security agencies to win over the menace.
“The Federal Government has also given the military the enabling environment to continue in the fight against terrorism and banditry,” he said.
The minister assured Nigerians of Federal Government’s commitment to ensure that every state is secured.